Basket Lamp, the lamp of December

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LAMP #8

Basket, the lamp of December

DETAILS:

The Basket Lamp, inspired by one of my faviourite authors, Ursula K. Le Guin, and her seminal text ‘The Carrier Bag of Fiction.’

The base is made from Pink Grogged Clay, glazed with Iron Oxide slip, Iron and Milk chocolate glaze.

  • Wired with electric components that have not been tested and tagged. Standard UK socket.  Please note: This piece will be tested and tagged upon sale.

  • Electric fired.

  • E27 light fixture

  • Base made of ceramic components that lighting fixtures have been wired into.

"If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it's useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what have you, and then take it home with you, home being another, larger kind of pouch or bag, a container for people, and then later on you take it out and eat it or share it or store it up for winter in a solider container or put it in the medicine bundle or the shrine or the museum, the holy place, the area that contains what is sacred, and then next day you probably do much the same again--if to do that is human, if that's what it takes, then I am a human being after all. Fully, freely, gladly, for the first time." Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)

LAMP #8

Basket, the lamp of December

DETAILS:

The Basket Lamp, inspired by one of my faviourite authors, Ursula K. Le Guin, and her seminal text ‘The Carrier Bag of Fiction.’

The base is made from Pink Grogged Clay, glazed with Iron Oxide slip, Iron and Milk chocolate glaze.

  • Wired with electric components that have not been tested and tagged. Standard UK socket.  Please note: This piece will be tested and tagged upon sale.

  • Electric fired.

  • E27 light fixture

  • Base made of ceramic components that lighting fixtures have been wired into.

"If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it's useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what have you, and then take it home with you, home being another, larger kind of pouch or bag, a container for people, and then later on you take it out and eat it or share it or store it up for winter in a solider container or put it in the medicine bundle or the shrine or the museum, the holy place, the area that contains what is sacred, and then next day you probably do much the same again--if to do that is human, if that's what it takes, then I am a human being after all. Fully, freely, gladly, for the first time." Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)